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A. N. WILSON, biographer, novelist, and historian, is the author of an award-winning biography of Tolstoy as well as lives of C. S. Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, and the apostle Paul. He has also written the bestselling Jesus and, most recently, The Victorians. He lives in North London.
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Penfriends from Porlock
Tolstoy
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Jesus
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Paul
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Kindly Light
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Wise Virgin
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Love Unknown
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My Name Is Legion
THE LAMPITT CHRONICLES
Incline Our Hearts
A Bottle in the Smoke
Daughters of Albion
Hearing Voices
A Watch in the Night
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